AB-04: Payroll Also see integrated programs in AB-01. MSPay Main Street Software $39 #7785/4466 [2 disks] is a payroll tax program that allows you to set up new tax tables at the end of the year. It is easy to set up and use. Many report formats are available, although none are specific for filling out tax forms. Painless Payroll 5.6 [PAYROLL] Pierce, Kendall B. ASP $75 #7449/3071 [2 disks] is an excellent payroll program. Features include built-in state and Federal tax tables; weekly, monthly, or annual pay periods; hourly, salaried or commissioned with optional base pay; pay codes; reports for use in preparing tax returns; support for multiple companies; the ability to print W2's and 1099's; and automatic interface with the Painless Accounting general ledger. Painless Payroll allows you to edit the tax tables, which is very important. Without this capability, you are at the mercy of the programmer when tax rates change. Although Painless will interface with the Painless general ledger, there is no export feature for moving data to other programs. Where Painless Payroll excels is its design. Painless has all of its features available in a single set of pull-down menus. Entering, reviewing, and editing of data are all substantially easier and more efficient with Painless. Requires 512k and a hard disk. Zipper Payroll 1.6 Softcraft ASP $67 #7449/3986 [2 disks] is a full-featured, easy-to-use payroll program. Set-up is virtually automatic, other than entering employee information. Then you can quickly enter hours worked and calculate and save the complete payroll. Reports include payroll statements, employee benefit reports, payroll register, check register, payroll tax report worksheets, management reports, and forms W-2 and W-3. Zpay3 3.6 ZPAY Payroll Systems ASP $75 #7277/1723 [2 disks] is a professional quality stand-alone payroll system which used to be sold as a retail-only product. It allows the user to update the tax tables. ZPAYII will handle salaried, hourly, commissioned, and salary plus commission employees. ZPAYII will allow you to pay non-employee compensation for "non-standard workers" or "outside individual contractors" which handle their own tax deductions. With this feature you may print checks for them, track the pay and print 1099 forms at year end. ZPAYII will allow you to have two overtime rates, bonuses, six additional pay deductions in addition to the normal federal tax, FICA, state tax, local tax, and an SDI type tax. ZPAYII will record and track vacation pay as well. ZPAYII does cost accounting and allows title assignment for up to ten different department accounts. ZPAYII reports include the pay period, month to date, quarter to date as well as year to date figures. There are tax reports which also give you the FUTA and SDI information. ZPAYII will print checks with stub information similar to the payroll reports. The check format is a general purpose check available from many computer forms sources. At the end of the year ZPAYII will print the W-2 forms and 1099-MISC forms in addition to the year end payroll information reports. Its printouts make quarterly tax reporting a breeze. Number of employees is limited only by disk space. A hard disk is not required, but you do need two drives. The employee data base is a valuable asset in itself as it contains much more than just the employees payroll information and can be used for printing labels for mailing and other functions. This is one of the best payroll packages around. Takehome Pay Calculation 3.63 Farnam, R. G. $40 #7277/1800 lets you analyze the effects on your take-home pay of varying different factors in your payroll deductions. Items which can be changed include Federal withholding, 401k contributions, and other deductions. This sounds more simplistic than it really is when you run the program. We think this could be a useful analysis tool for individuals or businesses, just as the author says. An hourly pay calculation is provided for users who want to figure their pay on a hourly rate instead of a set salary rate. Annual tax tables are provided including the 1991 Federal Tax Tables. Small Business Assistant WestCoast Software $20 #2785 lets you enter and print payroll checks and federal deposits for up to 100 employees. It also prints envelopes, address labels, and payable checks. It does not contain tax tables; you have to look up taxes in Federal tax guides. ]]]]]